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At American Express we place an enormous emphasis on users and usability. We sit at the intersection of commerce and experiences and are unique in our business model where we are one of only a few companies in the world that own a user’s end to end commerce experience.

With our mix of assets like rewards, benefits, members only perks, we are re-imagining how commerce and experiences converge in a more modern, digital and connected world. As we change the way merchants and their consumers interact with each other, we are looking for unbelievably talented leaders to define and execute against a very ambitious vision.

You’ll work among high performing engineering, design and product teams. Amongst some of the traits we are looking for, deep technical knowledge, set technical goals, contribute to product strategy, stubbornness against settling, bold decision making, drive architecture decisions, and design internet-scale solutions.

Does the above sound like you?

Creative problem-solving

We enjoy working on hard problems together because the hardest challenges are often the most rewarding.

Shape the world you want

Help improve small businesses, corporations, consumers to interact in a friction free manner where zero step commerce is default.

Welcoming for everyone

We want to create a workplace and product set that is inclusive and reflects the diversity of the cities and countries we serve.

In this role you will:

As a Director of Engineer for the American Express CMS and Experiences you will be responsible for the vision and execution of the content management platform strategy.

· Know what it takes to launch products regularly.

· Have the ability to define, collect and report on metrics that are clear and concise and able to articulate the impact of decisions.

· Drive technical projects with a range of engineering teams to build, design, implement and maintain some of the most diverse scalable platform constructs.

· Provide leadership for Developer Infrastructure inside American Express and manage collaboration with cross-functional Engineering teams to streamline and improve adoption of American Express' internal platform.

Your performance is measured by the impact of the products you launch and by your ability to lead and inspire a high-performing cross-functional team that includes Product, Engineering, Design, Data, Finance, Business Development, and Operations.

Here is what we are looking for:

10 years of experience as a Hands-On technical leader working across a mix of consumer, enterprise, and internal tools.

Technical fluency - an ability to clearly describe tradeoffs with users and engineers about certain decisions.

Highly organized - you are great at research and documenting your learnings

A history of leveraging both automation and operations teams to scale execution.

Loves dealing with fast pace, changing needs, and limited resources.

The ability to set a high bar for your team and empower them to achieve great results

A “driver” personality - constantly pushing toward clarity and delivery while balancing the need for great collaboration.

Large systems software design and development experience, including experience in Unix/Linux.

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